Mobile Device Integration

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I noticed at the bottom of the roadmap page on the main site that “mobile device integration” is something being looked into. I don’t know if this counts necessarily (plus I have concerns about privacy, though I’ve never researched them) but I wanted to bring attention to PushBullet, or at least in this case the PushBullet indicator more specifically. I had been using this for a bit but I stopped because I didn’t want to have to keep Firefox open for it. Now that I see they have an indicator and a Nautilus extension I will probably visit it again. I haven’t looked into their license or how the actual transfer protocol works (whether a private server can be run) but it might be a way…

http://www.webupd8.org/2014/07/pushbullet-indicator-gets-android.html

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Pretty sure pushbullet is not GPL but it is a great little app. I was thinking they were looking for something more like the KDE Konnect (SP?) project which works beautifully I just don’t like KDE or Qt.

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Yeah I was assuming pushbullet wasn’t a libre license and I wouldn’t really want to see something relying on a closed, third-party server for what it does either. I also prefer GTK so I’ve sort of avoided KDE connect.

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I’m sure something will come along for us GTK lovers at some point. Until then I’ll just use my smart watch :smiley: